I was watching the &#8220Today Show” a few days ago and it featured an interesting project co-sponsored by the National Geographic Society, IBM, the Waitt Family Foundation and geneticist Spencer ...

The UA’s Human Origins Genotyping Laboratory is doing genetic testing for a project that attempts to connect the remote ancestry of human beings. The lab does DNA testing from public participation ...

Correction: The Dec. 1 story “”Genome project traces human history”” misused the word “”genome”” in the headline, as The Genographic Project does not deal with genomes. The story also erroneously ...

WASHINGTON—Research conducted by the National Geographic Genographic Project, a multiyear global initiative that uses DNA to map the history of human migration, is helping unravel the timing and ...

This month, National Geographic and IBM launched the Genographic Project, an ambitious attempt to trace human migration out of Africa during the last 50,000 to 60,000 years. The project, led by ...

Scientists collecting DNA samples from people in remote regions around the world will soon be able to transmit samples and blog their experiences without leaving the field. Roughly 10 principal ...

About 1,000 students from Chicago Public Schools and their international sister schools are going to contribute DNA samples to the Genographic Project, a nonprofit database that seeks to study human ...

In this concise and well-written work, Wells (The Journey of Man) provides an accessible introduction to genetic anthropology, the study of human history using genetic evidence. Wells is the director ...

IBM last week announced that it has begun to deploy custom data-gathering software developed jointly with the National Geographic Society as part of a five-year project to map how the Earth was ...

WASHINGTON (October 30, 2008)—The Phoenicians gave the world the alphabet and a love of the color purple, and a research study published today by Genographic scientists in the American Journal of ...

MIDDLETOWN — Guests at Middfest have talked a lot over the years about their countries, but this year, they have done more than just talk. This year, volunteers have taken DNA swabs of the inside of ...